Diane Jones

@ArturNadol7566 @CherylE10044162 @SamiraAhmedUK @BBC @theJeremyVine Injustice over women’s pay compared to men’s Injustice over women’s pension pots compared to men’s Carers are mostly women - and carers allowance is worth … ? Teaching Assistants are mostly women who need the hours to fit with childcare … & they are paid peanuts 🥜🥜🥜

@ArturNadol7566 @SamiraAhmedUK @BBC @theJeremyVine i believe the same was with the Radio 2 breakfast show, when Zoe Ball took over from Chris Evans, same show, Chris was on peak salary of £2.25 but dropped to £1.6m whereas Zoe's peaked at £1.36 mi, so quite a gap at their max

Israel wiped out most of this Palestinian family in Gaza, despite the so-called “ceasefire.” Islam Karsou, who was pregnant with twins, was killed along with her two other young children by Israeli shelling.

BBC PAID HIM 6X MORE. THE TRIBUNAL SAID THAT WAS ILLEGAL. THE BBC SAID IT WAS COMPLICATED. Samira Ahmed @SamiraAhmedUK presented Newswatch on @BBC for years. Same format. Same length. Same job. Read viewer feedback on camera, wrap it up, go home. Jeremy Vine @theJeremyVine did exactly the same thing on Points of View. She got £440 per episode. He got £3,000. Ahmed spent years trying to fix it quietly through internal BBC processes. The BBC said there was no problem. She filed for tribunal. In January 2020, the tribunal ruled unanimously in her favour. The BBC could not explain the difference. They tried. They argued Vine needed "a glint in the eye" and to be "cheeky." The tribunal said that was not a skill. It was a story the BBC told itself. The total underpayment was close to £700,000. Sarah Montague, another BBC woman, settled separately for around £400,000. The National Union of Journalists flagged around 70 more cases waiting resolution internally. After Ahmed won, 700 BBC women received pay rises. The BBC's statement after losing? They regretted it had gone to tribunal. Not that they paid a woman six times less than a man for the same work for years. Just that it became public. Sources: @guardian, @BBC, @IFJGlobal, Others

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Hayv Kahraman, contemporary Iraqi artist who paints and sculpts and whose work reflects issues for women personally and their role within society #WomensArt

This is what courage looks like. @roisinmurphy did no more than question the medicalisation of vulnerable adolescents yet the mob tried to cancel her. Can't wait to hear her full @Freedom_in_Arts speech. 👇

"Fellow Oxford professor Michael Biggs tells me there is ‘a strong case that Mr Rattley is creating a degrading and offensive environment, especially for female students, which would constitute sexual harassment’. ‘Adults should be free to explore their sexual interests in private with other consenting adults, but not to bring them to work’, he adds." @jo_bartosch spiked-online.com/2026/04/29/why…

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

A British egg in 1955 came from a hen that had been outside that morning. The hen had eaten grass, slugs, beetles, worms, and whatever the farmer's wife had thrown into the run from the kitchen. The yolk of the egg was orange, occasionally so deep an orange it looked almost red. It stood up in the pan when you cracked it. The white was thick enough that you could lift the egg by its yolk on a fingertip if you were careful and the egg was fresh enough. The hen produced perhaps 180 eggs a year. The flock was small, twelve to twenty birds, attached to the farm or the smallholding or the back garden. Eggs were seasonal, abundant in spring and summer, scarce in autumn, almost absent in winter. A British family in 1955 ate eggs when the hens were laying and ate something else when they weren't. A British egg in 2026 comes, in the overwhelming majority of cases, from a barn of 16,000 birds confined under artificial light at carefully controlled temperature, fed a formulated diet of soy, wheat, and synthetic vitamins, producing 320 eggs a year per hen by extending the lay through the winter dark months. The yolk is yellow because the feed contains a synthetic carotenoid called canthaxanthin, dosed to produce the colour the consumer expects. The yolk does not stand up in the pan. It collapses under its own weight, spreading thin across the surface like a slow puddle. The pasture-raised egg contains roughly three times the omega-3, twice the vitamin E, considerably more vitamin A and D, and more folate than the commodity egg. The peer-reviewed literature has been saying this for twenty years. The egg has been the standard breakfast protein on the British plate for four hundred years. The modern egg looks like the old egg, costs roughly the same, and delivers approximately a third of the nutrition. The British shopper, examining the box at Tesco, has no way of knowing this. "Free range" means the hen had access to a door that was theoretically open at some point during her productive life. A pasture-raised egg from a small producer at the farmers' market costs approximately 50p. A commodity egg from Tesco costs approximately 25p. The price difference is the entire reason the system exists. Find a small producer. Pay 50p. The yolk will tell you what an egg used to be.

Sandie Peggie was forced to give up the job she loves for refusing to share a changing room with a biological male. If NHS Fife had actually followed the law, none of this would have happened. But let’s not forget: these conditions were created by the SNP Government and their embrace of dangerous gender ideology.

I’m all for tighter IT security but my nearly 80 yo dad is currently locked out of his outlook email and trying to get back in and to prove he’s ’not a robot’ he is having to identify 10 - yes 10 - genuine cat miaows from human miaows. Utterly bizarre.

Yr regular reminder that Benjamin Netanyahu boasts Israel is the ‘guardian of Christianity’ in the middle east.

Remember when I said fascists were the dumbest fucking people on the planet? Nazis weren’t communists. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party jailed and killed communists, banned their parties, smashed unions, and kept private industry intact. “Socialist” in the name was deliberate branding to win working class support. I swear I learnt this at 14. Scary how thick these men are.

This couple are not facing a legal battle. This would require the Respondent, the surrogate mother, to withdraw her consent. If she doesn’t consent to relinquishing her parental rights she should be able to withdraw. Consent is not consent if you cannot change your mind. A 🧵

Well done and with thanks to @FactCheck. They’ve corrected their findings to note Prof Hazell’s past affiliation. I suspect Prof Hazell chose not to disclose them when they went to UCL constitution unit for a view.

Changed times. Scottish Labour chose GRR rebel @CMochan to launch their women's manifesto. Good to see. (Will post it once I can find it online.) scotsman.com/news/politics/…

“I won’t sugar-coat it. The world goes very dark, very quickly. Everyone and anyone who was ever going to disappoint you, does so, all at once. Networks of interwoven friendship and career that took years to build – collapse overnight. All the hypocrisy, frailty, and hidden disloyalty gets exposed at once. It’s bewildering and it’s a bitter pill.” @roisinmurphy speaking at @Freedom_in_Arts as reported by @nickwallis genderblog.net/rebel-alliance…

ChatGPT once said that Marion ran the Edinburgh Book Fest - she preferred that one! This is why AI shouldn't write Tribunal rulings (as a random example).

If a girl of 3, or 9 years old insists she is a boy, it's not because she is a boy inside. It's because someone has taught her there is a correct way to be a girl, and she doesn't like it.